Storming a fortified wall meant firing uphill at an enemy who barely showed himself. A defender on the parapet could aim down over cover, drop, reload, and rise again; the attacker in the open below had to shoot up at a narrow line of heads and muzzle-flashes. The Alamo's defenders held that advantage twice over: when General Cos surrendered San Antonio in December 1835, the Texians took his stores, and many of the garrison went into the final fight with several loaded muskets each, ready to hand. In the first minutes of 6 March 1836 that stockpile let fewer than 250 men throw a wall of fire into the columns crowding the base of the walls.

King & Country's figure kneels on one knee and fires upward, his bayoneted musket angled at the parapet above him. He wears the Mexican line uniform — a dark blue coatee with red collar, cuffs, and lapels picked out in white piping, white crossbelts and a brass plate, a black shako with a red-white-green pompom — with a gourd canteen at his hip, white campaign trousers torn at the knee, and huarache sandals. Set him in a firing line with Santa Anna's Soldier Biting Open a Fresh Cartridge and Santa Anna's Soldier using His Ramrod, with Santa Anna's Laddermen going up the wall above, for a diorama of the assault at the moment it reached the base of the Alamo.

Model: RTA141 / King & Country / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / 1 piece set